One thing on which there is universal agreement is that our life is in a disarray, and a good collection of ills constantly keep us on toes. Where should our attention fall?
One observation I could make about our life is that the comfort and convenience we derive out of living our life depends mostly on the lifestyle we follow. Unlike all other elements of our life, activity like walking or talking, where we take pains to follow an appropriate way or style, our living style is only a copy. Something we hurriedly copied, perhaps with a few improvements or other re-arrangements, to meet an impending danger. Our forefathers have been sticking to it, since it would have been working well. Perhaps by habit, and becoming unaware of all this while generations fly by, we are proudly continuing with it.
One conclusion I could draw is that our current way of living in well-settled and close-knit groups, tends to concentrate all the ills, effectively magnifying it, and disperses all that is good, effectively cutting down each one’s share of it. So the good, diminish, and the bad, beefs up. Surely, we need to look for a new lifestyle that can moderate it, if not diminishing the bad and beefing up the good.
One of the remedies I have proposed to counter the ills we face in our life is a brand-new lifestyle. I think, an ideal lifestyle will be a cure-all. While supporting unfettered growth to all that we cherish in life, it will pose a natural obstruction to all that can hinder its smooth flow.
Now that I have stumbled upon the nomadic lifestyle as a fitting answer to the questions, all these could pose. I thought of evaluating, in which all ways it can bring a relief, form the ills I have been describing through some of my books.
1 Caste and its ills: One important conclusion is that as the cure is not working, we need to change medication. Naturally, as a novel medicine, nomadic lifestyle offers a lot of possibilities.
2 Unsure Male syndrome: In a nomadic life, both males and females getting a vast canvas to paint their misgivings, between them, a more cohesive union can be expected to happen.
3 My book, Easy Route to Peace, suggests naming each one of us with rather expressive terms of contextual relevance. This will not be an issue at all, in a nomadic life, as there won’t be any long-term associations that stand to face the brunt of oppressive churning of accustomed things like names.
4 My book, Easier Route to Peace, suggests making culture into a dynamic and volatile variable depicting the current state of a society. The dynamic nature giving rise to instant merriment, and the volatile nature releasing us from the clutches of distant pasts. Now, in a nomadic scenario, all elements of culture remaining dynamic, such a measure as this will become an inherent part of our life, letting us enjoy its fruits without additional efforts.
5 My book, Fathoming the Enigma, mentions of the need to dovetail spiritual priorities too, before arriving at a value based on material attributes. Now, both material attributes and all other parameters and abstractions that could be of relevance being in contention at all times, there is plenty of room for the unfathomable in us. Whereas, in a nomadic scenario, the very dynamic nature of attributes shall be making it immune to the seeds of the unfathomable in us.
Therefore, the suggestion made in my book, Evolution and the Future of the Unique Human, which exhorts us to derive a new lifestyle, named socio-nomadic lifestyle, is clearly the one needing attention the most.
